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finely sprinkled with olive-brown towards the middle, the lateral 

 margins of the cephalic portion conspicuously olive-brown ; chelicerae 

 yellowish brown ; abdomen broadly purplish black above, the sides 

 and posterior surface of abdomen, the whole under surface of body, 

 the legs and the pedipalps very pale yellowish. 



Carapace just exceeding the metatarsus and half the tarsus of first 

 leg in length, provided with two pairs of black setiform spines or 

 stout setae behind and with a number of small black setae along the 

 lateral margins and behind. Ocular area scarcely more than twice 

 as wide as long, with parallel sides ; the anterior row of eyes with 

 their posterior margins in a straight line (seen from above), the 

 median eyes rather large, larger than the eyes of the posterior row 

 and more than half as large as the anterior laterals ; the posterior 

 row slightly recurved, the posterior lateral eyes slightly longer than 

 the medians and about half the length of the anterior laterals, 

 separated from the latter by almost their own length and from the 

 former by slightly less, the posterior median eyes subquadrate, nearer 

 to the posterior laterals than to the anterior medians. 



Pedipalps not spined ; process of palpal organ a little longer than 

 the bulb, yellowish at base but black distally, the basal three-fifths 

 stout and straight, becoming slenderer distally, the distal two-fifths 

 very fine and slender, lightly curved. 



Legs. All the tarsi scopulate, I and II with 0-1 small external 

 spines below, III with 1 anterior and 0-1 posterior spine, IV 

 with a series of longer and shorter spines (about 2 deep) along outer 

 lower edge and 1 spine at the inner lower edge. Metatarsus I very 

 slightly curved, not scopulate, with 3 distal, 1-2 mesial, and 2 basal 

 spines (the inner mesial and basal spine being much weaker than the 

 others) ; II without inner spines below, except at the apex. Tibia I 

 very slightly curved, slightly shorter than the metatarsus, not in- 

 crassated nor spurred, with 3 apical spines below, 3-4 other stout 

 spines along the outer lower edge, 2-3 mesial and basal ones just 

 above these on the outer surface, and a pair of proximal ones along 

 the inner upper edge ; II with 3 apical spines below, 1-2 along the 

 upper inner edge, and 3-4 stout setiform spines along outer lower 

 edge ; IV with 3 internal spines and several long, setiform, inferior 

 spines. Patella I and II mostly with an internal spine, III with 

 numerous spines on anterior surface and one distal one on upper 

 surface. Claws of legs with a number of teeth in each row. 



Posterior spinners with the apical segment distinctly longer than 

 the penultimate one. 



Abdomen with long spiniform setae above, especially at the base. 



